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There are plenty of boards that are much more powerful than the RPi and have comparable price (ODROID-C2 comes to mind). But the devil is in wether or not they

by steeve 9y ago

There are plenty of boards that are much more powerful than the RPi and have comparable price (ODROID-C2 comes to mind). But the devil is in wether or not they run the mainline Linux kernel. I have several ODROID-C2 that I have replaced with RPis because of the poor hardware support (Amlogic kernel was way late at the time, may still is). Stick to mainline.

BlackLotus89 9y ago
I got my odroid c2 running with the rc kernel for a while now. There were some problems at first, but it now runs my home automation and DHCP server without a hitch. I'm running archlinuxarm btw but I will soon try voidlinux as well on it (I tried kodi as well and it kinda could play h256 in software, but I now stick to my raspberry pi as a media center)
- toopsss 9y ago
  You’ve gotta mean hardware. There is no way that arm chip could do h265 at any useful speed. The amlogic in the c2 can do hardware h265 (not hdr) and it works with Kodi. I use one this way and have been overall pleased with it though especially since I didn’t buy the board for this in the first place. It was a repurpose. I would only get something with 10 bit these days if media is the primary concern.
  - BlackLotus89 9y ago
    Nope I meant software I don't think h265 hardware decoding is in mainline yet (could be wrong thought) And yes I explicity tested software decoding and my 720p sample played without noticeable delay/framedrop and 1080p was uhm kinda running.
- IntelMiner 9y ago
  The C2 is unfortunately difficult to find much documentation on. Things like kernel configuration etc for mainline releases are sorely lacking I'm going to try building the latest 4.17 RC later today to see if I can't get it to boot. But I didn't get very far a few months ago
madmulita 9y ago
I think the devil is in availability. I'm in the bottom of the world. Over here the only almost reliably available is the raspy.

by steeve 9y ago

BlackLotus89 9y ago

I got my odroid c2 running with the rc kernel for a while now. There were some problems at first, but it now runs my home automation and DHCP server without a hitch. I'm running archlinuxarm btw but I will soon try voidlinux as well on it (I tried kodi as well and it kinda could play h256 in software, but I now stick to my raspberry pi as a media center)

toopsss 9y ago
You’ve gotta mean hardware. There is no way that arm chip could do h265 at any useful speed. The amlogic in the c2 can do hardware h265 (not hdr) and it works with Kodi. I use one this way and have been overall pleased with it though especially since I didn’t buy the board for this in the first place. It was a repurpose. I would only get something with 10 bit these days if media is the primary concern.
- BlackLotus89 9y ago
  Nope I meant software I don't think h265 hardware decoding is in mainline yet (could be wrong thought) And yes I explicity tested software decoding and my 720p sample played without noticeable delay/framedrop and 1080p was uhm kinda running.
IntelMiner 9y ago
The C2 is unfortunately difficult to find much documentation on. Things like kernel configuration etc for mainline releases are sorely lacking I'm going to try building the latest 4.17 RC later today to see if I can't get it to boot. But I didn't get very far a few months ago

madmulita 9y ago

I think the devil is in availability. I'm in the bottom of the world. Over here the only almost reliably available is the raspy.